Researchers found differences in how brain regions work together during certain cognitive tasks, which may help clinicians ...

A surprising new brain study suggests that remembering life events and recalling facts may rely on the same neural machinery.

In Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias, a protein called tau can pile up inside brain cells and form toxic clumps. Those ...

That sharp flinch during a violent movie scene is familiar to many people. A hand slams, a body falls, and your own muscles ...

A recent study found that a short afternoon nap may offer brain health benefits, such as clearing the mind and improving ...

The team’s research provides compelling evidence for the brain’s influence on physiology. A deeper understanding of this mind-body connection, they hope, could pave the way for new non-invasive ...

Despite decades of research, the mechanisms behind fast flashes of insight that change how a person perceives their world, ...

In a new study, researchers discovered that the human brain has four pivotal periods when it goes through marked changes, sparking five "epochs" that last for years. The adolescent phase, for example, ...

Scientists at Trinity College Dublin used brain imaging and AI to discover that two-month-old babies are showing cognitive abilities much earlier than expected ...

A study has suggested that treatments for Parkinson's disease could potentially be doubly efficacious by targeting a brain ...

A new doctoral dissertation shows that gambling disorder is linked to brain networks involved in self-control and brain ...